Good Morning Good Night and General Chat.

[husoi]

Good morning.

 

One of many reasons why I like to  live alone

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DA3v0XVu4CE/?igsh=MWU2M3JqbnUydjlxbA==

 

[Ian Frog]

@Mawsley I am afraid my cooking isn`t going to aid your recovery Lol.

Happy to take you out for a pint when you are feeling better, maybe drop you at a pub that does food?

Cheers

Ian

[rennie]

Good afternoon 

[Fiddlesticks]

6 hours ago, husoi said:

Good morning.

 

One of many reasons why I like to  live alone

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DA3v0XVu4CE/?igsh=MWU2M3JqbnUydjlxbA==

 

Funny, but obviously staged.

[Grumpy Old Git]

Morning - Feeling a little better today.

 

[Simon Davey]

Good morning bikers

[dynax]

Good morning

[Tiggie]

Chimney sweep day today. He is very happy with the soot type and amount he's swept out. He says I must know how to start a good fire 

[Simon Davey]

10 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

Chimney sweep day today. He is very happy with the soot type and amount he's swept out apparently. He says I must know how to start a good fire 

 

Mine was horrified when I asked if it was OK to burn old fence posts and rails. I thought the creosote would help the burn, but apparently not

I've got tonnes of the bloody stuff as well... 

Edited October 18, 2024 by Simon Davey

[Tiggie]

He actually inspected the wood I use

 

I inherited this from my Father-In-Law which I use in garden to burn all the crap stuff

 

 

 

 

[Simon Davey]

@Tiggie

That's a great idea to get rid of the crap. 

 

Can't believe he inspected your wood

 

 

Edited October 18, 2024 by Simon Davey

[AstronautNinja]

1 hour ago, Simon Davey said:

 

Mine was horrified when I asked if it was OK to burn old fence posts and rails. I thought the creosote would help the burn, but apparently not

I've got tonnes of the bloody stuff as well... 

Asking for a chimney fire is that dude. 

 

Freshly felled wood takes 2 years minimum to be suitably dry. 

[bonio]

6 minutes ago, Simon Davey said:

@Tiggie

That's a great idea to get rid of the crap. 

 

Can't believe he inspected your wood

 

 

Yeah ours used to check the wood too. Given up on fires now though, too much hard work stacking logs each year.

[Fiddlesticks]

2 hours ago, Tiggie said:

He actually inspected the wood I use

 

I inherited this from my Father-In-Law which I use in garden to burn all the crap stuff

 

 

 

 

I used to have one of those in a caravan I lived in for a while.

I remember making it. We removed the valve and washed it out, thinking that would get rid of any residual gas. When the angle grinder cut through the steel a fireball came out of the end and burned for 15 mins. Have a picture somewhere; it was before the days of digital photography.

[Nick the wanderer]

The Firewood Poem

Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year,
Chestnut's only good they say,
If for logs 'tis laid away.
Make a fire of Elder tree,
Death within your house will be;
But ash new or ash old,
Is fit for a queen with crown of gold

Birch and fir logs burn too fast
Blaze up bright and do not last,
it is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'en the very flames are cold
But ash green or ash brown
Is fit for a queen with golden crown

Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke,
Apple wood will scent your room
Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom
Oaken logs, if dry and old
keep away the winter's cold
But ash wet or ash dry
a king shall warm his slippers by.

 

One of the benefits of working for a timber merchant with it's own sawmill is a handy source of oak logs. They used to say they season about an  inch a year.

 

[Simon Davey]

2 hours ago, bonio said:

Yeah ours used to check the wood too. Given up on fires now though, too much hard work stacking logs each year.

 

Whaaaaaaat? 

They just need to sweep the soot. 

It's up to you what you burn. 

We have three log-burners, but they barely get used. 

[bonio]

Yes, of course we could burn what we liked - it's not like the sweep was policing us or anything. But dry wood leads to more heat out of each log (and cleaner chimneys, and cleaner emissions).

We used to use our log burner every night, rather than the central heating. We stored the logs until they were 10% water content (as measured by the sweep). You could tell they were good to burn as they were light as a feather. 4 10" logs would keet us warm for the whole evening. 

[Tiggie]

Think of it more like a mechanic asking you what oil you put in your bike. You can use whatever you want in it as it's your bike but he will point out why its crap and what you should be using.

 

 

I think someone on here once mentioned they knew a person who had (or was threatened with) their burner removed by council as they kept burning wooden pallets in their stove and had 2 or 3 chimney fires because it. 

 

I am probably far too over cautious with what I put in the house stove, I get a log delivery yearly, keep it stored in a section of the garage and always have a couple of large washing baskets full of logs to burn in the house, transferring from garage when they get empty. This way the logs are bone dry plus will be warmer than outside so will burn easier. As I said, far too cautious I know 

 

Fo the first few months we used the bags of logs you can buy at B&M/Home bargains type places.  Looking back I realise how shit they were, glass would always be blackening over completely when burning. I barely even have to give it a wipe nowadays

 

[bonio]

42 minutes ago, Nick the wanderer said:

Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'en the very flames are cold

I remember when all we had to burn was elm. Grumpy, fussy logs there are, they sit for hours and grumble and smoke "like churchyard mould". But if you got them into exactly the right position, they would eventually properly catch light and when they did, they would throw out the heat. But you either froze or roasted; there was no in between.

Edited October 18, 2024 by bonio

[AstronautNinja]

All these old folk singing poems about logs in my day we were lucky to even have a dried dinosaur turd to burn, you don't know how good you've got it having actual wood for your fire. I remember being told as a kid to stare at the sun and to use my imagination rather than waste money on a fire. 

 

Please note this is a joke before someone gets their grumpy pants on and rides in on their white horse of Internet righteousness. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

2 hours ago, Fiddlesticks said:

I used to have one of those in a caravan I lived in for a while.

I remember making it. We removed the valve and washed it out, thinking that would get rid of any residual gas. When the angle grinder cut through the steel a fireball came out of the end and burned for 15 mins. Have a picture somewhere; it was before the days of digital photography.

Ah crap...I've got a couple of old fashioned cylinders I was thinking about making into a log burner. 

 

So the plan to rinse them before attacking with an angle grinder is obviously not a good one. 

[Fiddlesticks]

5 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Ah crap...I've got a couple of old fashioned cylinders I was thinking about making into a log burner. 

 

So the plan to rinse them before attacking with an angle grinder is obviously not a good one. 

Better than not rinsing them out at all, I should imagine!

It was fine. The thing was laid on its side so the flame came out of the valve end, angle grinder operative didn't even singe his eyebrows.

Eggs and omelettes.

Edited October 18, 2024 by Fiddlesticks

[rennie]

Good afternoon 

I still like fridays!

[Mawsley]

On 17/10/2024 at 10:55, Ian Frog said:

@Mawsley I am afraid my cooking isn`t going to aid your recovery Lol.

Happy to take you out for a pint when you are feeling better, maybe drop you at a pub that does food?

Cheers

Ian

 

She's banned me from drinking at any time except for "celebrations".

 

Tomorrow, I plan on "celebrating" going to the football for the first time since leaving hospital. 

 

 

[Bender]

1 hour ago, Mawsley said:

 

She's banned me from drinking at any time except for "celebrations".

 

Tomorrow, I plan on "celebrating" going to the football for the first time since leaving hospital. 

 

 

I'm off to football tmrw, corporate hospitality, it's awful, free drinks, free food, guest speakers, comfy seats, it's going to be a hard day